Preschool Children Quotes:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

topic: Dream, Children, Integrity, Good Character, Social Equality

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

source: Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

topic: Learning, Mind, Function, Alcoholics Anonymous, Parachutes

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Life Teaching, Preschool Children

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Color, Judging, People, Good Character, Social Equality

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

- Claus Moser, Baron Moser

topic: Inspirational, Ignorance, Doe, Inspirational Educational, Learning English

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Wall, Book, Humor, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

topic: Graduation, Education, Witty, Medical Education, Inspirational Education

A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.

- Penelope Leach

source: Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Children, Real, Confusing, Toddler, Cooperatives

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

- James Sallis

source: "No Child Left Inside" by Isabel Cowles, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2009.

topic: Nature, Children, Preschool, Preschool Children, Physical Activity

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Children, Believe, Book, Preschool Children, Preschool

Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.

- Penelope Leach

source: Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Children, Answers, Half, Preschool Children, Preschool

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that “when are the children going to have time to play?” Well, they’re not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don’t understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.

- David Icke

source: "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

topic: Teacher, Children, Educational, Preschool Children, Left Brain